Recently, it happened in Chongming, a few young men went to the temple in the middle of the night to worship the Bodhisattva on incense, and told the Bodhisattva that the current situation was overstretched and wanted to borrow money, and promised to double the return when it was developed.
As soon as they looked up, they saw the Bodhisattva in front of them making an OK gesture, and they understood that the Bodhisattva agreed, and then carried the merit box away.
The next day, the abbot saw that the merit box was gone, checked the surveillance, and then reported the case, and then the police found several people, but refused to admit the fact of stealing money, all of them did not admit guilt, and said that the Bodhisattva agreed at that time.
After hearing this, the abbot said that the money for the merit incense was the incense money donated to the temple, which belonged to the property of the temple, and even if the Bodhisattva came in person, he had no right to take a penny from it. Notice that he is talking about the power of a bodhisattva.
Let's look at the character in Hugo's masterpiece "Les Miserables", the slave Jean Valjean, who was imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a piece of bread, and after experiencing all kinds of inhuman treatment, he felt that he had seen through this cold world, and after staying at the bishop's house, he stole the most valuable silver from the bishop's house in the middle of the night and fled.
After being caught by the police and brought back, the bishop said that I had given him the silverware, and gave it to Valjean, saying, "Why did you forget to take the silver candlestick I gave you"?
Seeing this, we find that the bishop is the salvation of Valjean's soul, the soul is purified, so that he has in his heart the highest law, the conscience, that is, the law we hope for.
And in this real case, the monk and the bishop deal with the same problem diametrically opposed:
The monk used the method of reporting to the police and punishing him, saying that even if the Bodhisattva came in person, he had no right to take a penny from it. This is said very harshly, so that the faith collapses in an instant, is the Bodhisattva working for the monk? Is the Bodhisattva a temple signboard? Bodhisattvas are for the universal sentient beings, for the general public.
We see that there is a problem, and the monk still uses modern high-tech surveillance methods, and it is difficult to find the police, instead of worshipping the Bodhisattva. I think that even if the Bodhisattva comes, he will be told that he should not set up a merit box to collect wealth, because money is something outside the body. Teacher Yi Zhongtian said: Faith is people's unwavering belief in the supernatural and super-secular existence. So what does this monk believe in? Faith in fancy tickets and tempting copper stench? The merit box was originally intended to help the poor and save the suffering, what do you want so much money for, monk, shouldn't you be chanting with a green lantern?
Although the law stipulates that the money in the merit box belongs to the temple, those who take the money in the merit box will be fined and detained for public security, investigated for criminal responsibility and imprisoned, and the criminal law stipulates that the crime of theft shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and the circumstances are serious for not less than three years but not more than ten years.
But I think this monk is even more shameful than those young people, he has blasphemed the faith of the general public, using the merit box as a tool to collect money, the temple as a business to run, and the believers as a wallet for people who are stupid and have a lot of money.
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